Mercury to drop further during New Year holidays

By The Nation

 

The Meteorological Department on Saturday warned that the mercury would plunge by another two to four degrees Celsius from New Year’s eve to January 2.

 

In the daily weather forecast issued at 6am on Saturday, the department said another strong high pressure area from China will extend to upper Thailand during the period, resulting in a drop in temperature by 2-4C.

 

The department said the upper part of Thailand would be covered with fog in the morning so motorists need to be careful.

 

The department added that a moderate northeast monsoon across the Gulf of Thailand would bring isolated heavy rains over the lower part of the country and would cause waves about 2 to 4 metres high in the Gulf from Sunday till January 2.

 

For the next 24 hours, the department predicted the lowest temperature on northern mountaintops at 8C and northeastern mountaintops at 9C .

 

The department expected the lowest temperature in Bangkok during the next 24 hours to be around 23 to 25C.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30335095

 

 

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Unusual cold this year in Thailand and North America too. Certainly because of climate change (was it up or down?)

Just thinking, that would surely be a rise of the mercury. Especially as pressure is measured in inches of mercury. Although there are some (expensive) mercury thermometers, it is more normal to refer to temperature as degrees Celsius and pressure as inches of mercury or millibars. Americans should substitute Celsius with the outdated Fahrenheit.

Lets hope the Norwegians here are well wrappedup.

2 hours ago, hhinhh said:

Unusual cold this year in Thailand and North America too. Certainly because of climate change (was it up or down?)

This is a normal Thai cool season when its hotter its because of climate change, just enjoy it.  It always used to be like this.

could not  move this morning on the highway coming to Chiang Rai. Every man and his dog are coming here to experience the cold .

11.5c at 8am this morning in the UK if that helps.

good time to be selling parkas to Thais

2 hours ago, gunderhill said:

 huh, and how about "absolute zero" at -273c surely  that should really be 0c?

 

 

Now or you are REALLY grasping at straws!

2 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

 

Now or you are REALLY grasping at straws!

Whose "now" . I don't  see  that member  listed.

An inflammatory post has been removed as well as the replies. 

Do they just make this stuff up at random? Last time they said the temp would drop 2-4 degrees it dropped 10 degrees in Chiang Mai and more in the surrounding areas. I'm looking at the forecast for the next week and the temp is actually up after we finally broke the cold spell.